The Biggest Space Telescope in the Universe

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How do you launch the largest space telescope ever built into space? The James Webb Space Telescope will travel 1.5 million miles away from Earth to help answer some of our biggest questions about the universe. But first, it has to be launched on a rocket - and the telescope is too big to fit on a rocket. So NASA decided to fold it up. How did they do this? NASA astrophysicist Knicole Colón and NASA engineer Alphonso Stewart take us on a journey with the world’s most complicated origami project.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:04.2	And I'm Marshall, welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:08.6	Today we're talking about the challenge of getting a telescope into space.
0:14.2	The James Webb Space Telescope is too big to fit into a rocket, so NASA decided to fold
0:20.4	it up.
0:21.4	Sounds like the biggest origami project in the universe.
0:24.4	Definitely, we'll find out how to fold a space telescope right after this.
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